Prevention is always better and easier . I laughed today at an article stating that subway crime in NYC has gone way up. The BGs go after sleeping riders .I spent many years riding the subway there and one of the first things you should learn is - subways are not for sleeping !!
Awareness is always the first line of defense !

This is sound advice not just in NYC. In Sacramento CA a Transit cop on light rail told me if you doze off you just might get knifed just for the shoes you are wearing. I sometimes wonder what open carry folks do if they get sleepy in a public environment.

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When the number of people in institutions reaches 51%, we change sides.

I was just in New York City around the end of Jan. The city & metro area seemed a lot less crowded & hectic as when I visited in the late 1990s.
When I rode the subways in the 90s, they were super packed in the daytime.
It was rough.
In Mar, 2012 I got a good friend in New York a Uzi tactical pen to carry on the streets. The alloy metal pen is handy & includes a bezel crown design.
He likes it & most of the online reviews of the Uzi pen are +.
Tactical pens like the Uzi, the Tuff Writer & Tactical TakeDown are impressive. You can train to disable a subject with a pen then draw your primary sidearm.

In NY City, anyone carrying a shootin' iron better either be a cop or a cousin of the Mayor.
Lots of other close use weapons are available, as long as they don't look like it.
Better yet, don't go to places that give the edge to the criminals.
The last time I was in Chicago, there were folks walking around, right out in the open and past cops, with boy scout type small axes in their back pockets, with the handle sticking out.
Somehow it was legal when most other weapons are not.

Prevention is always better and easier . I laughed today at an article stating that subway crime in NYC has gone way up. The BGs go after sleeping riders .I spent many years riding the subway there and one of the first things you should learn is - subways are not for sleeping !!
Awareness is always the first line of defense

Well, if subway crimes are going way up and they've always been targeting sleeping victims, it logically follows that --either there are a lot more sleeping victims than there used to be, or they're now targeting awake victims as well.

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